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Latest newsutf-8European Commissioncnect-newsroom@ec.europa.eu (CNECT Newsroom Editorial Team)cnect-newsroom@ec.europa.eu (CNECT Newsroom Web Team)30New Technological Advances for the Third Generation of Solar Cellshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127446
Achieving energy efficient, cost effective and versatile solar cells has always been a challenge for the scientific community. The emerging perovskite sensitized solar cells (PSCs) are very attractive candidates to fulfil these requirements. Their potential for fast rise in performance attracted intense attention from scientific community and in particular from GOTSolar consortium.Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:55:28 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127446Call for tenders | Study on media literacy and online empowerment issues raised by algorithm-driven media services (SMART 2017/0081)https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127433
The European Commission has launched a Call for Tenders to carry out a Study on “Media literacy and online empowerment issues raised by algorithm-driven media services" (SMART 2017/0081).Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:57:17 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127433Minutes of the 14th meeting of the Digital Championshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127429
The Digital Champions had their 14th meeting in the margin of the Digital Assembly in Malta.Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:58:37 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127429Have your say on the future EU High Performance Computing Initiativehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126876
The European Commission has opened a consultation on the High Performance Computing Initiative in Europe. The Commission wants to gather stakeholders’ opinions on the key areas of the future EU-wide initiative on HPC that will support the development of the next generation of computing and data infrastructure in Europe.Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126876Targeted consultation on the High Performance Computing initiative in Europehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126877
The aim of the targeted consultation is to collect feedback in order to define EuroHPC, a new legal and financial instrument to boost High Performance Computing in Europe.Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/1268774th Meeting of the Future Internet Forumhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/118685
The third meeting of the Horizon 2020 Future Internet Forum took place in Brussels on 28 June 2017.
The meeting was dedicated to the Next Generation Internet Initiative (NGI), focusing on the follow up of the three main actions: Select a national NGI Contact Point and assign their role; Populate the NGI interactive map and carry out the relevant stakeholders to register for; Organise an NGI workshop until the end of 2017.Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/118685Optically-driven phonon sources and detectorshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126831
PHENOMEN is an ambitious project that could serve as a future scalable platform for hybrid information processing with phonons.Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126831CP-SETIS | Fostering interoperability of tools to develop cyber-physical systemshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127018
The European project CP-SETIS has delivered results which will help making development of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) easier and operations more reliable.Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:05:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127018Ex-ante Publicity for the Call for Tenders: Study and Technical Assistance for the Development and Maintenance of the Broadband Europe Section of the Digital Single Market Website - SMART 2017/0019https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127028
This publication is made pursuant to Article 124.1 of the Rules of Application of the Financial Regulation that provides for an ex-ante publication on the Institutions' websites of contracts with a value up to 135.000 EUR. The European Commission will soon launch a call for tenders for a service contract of a maximum value of EUR 120.000 (one hundred twenty thousand).Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:59:58 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/127028Position papers received in the framework of the public consultation on Building a European Data Economyhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126895
The European Commission received 21 position papers either as a complement to questionnaire answers (3) or as a stand-alone contribution (18). This brings the overall number of contributions to the Building a European Data Economy public consultation to 398Tue, 01 Aug 2017 09:23:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126895Substantive issues for review in the areas of market entry, management of scarce resources and general end-user issues (SMART 2015/0003)https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126893
The Commission has published a study report on issues in the areas of market entry and authorisation, management of scarce resources, and general end-user issues.Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:00:27 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126893Digital Single Market in practice: Simplon.cohttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126869
Simplon.co offers free training in digital skills for disadvantaged and young people across France. This project aims to reduce the digital divide and provide a skilled workforce to help build the EU digital economy.Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:22:46 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126869Call for Tenders | Study on the mechanisms that shape social media and their impact on society — SMART 2017/0090https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126842
The European commission has launched a call for tenders for a study on the mechanisms that shape social media and their impact on society.Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:45:31 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126842Scientists transform industrial learning with cutting-edge AR technologyhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126595
Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT), is an ambitious European research and innovation project supported under Horizon 2020 to develop and test within three years a novel way of industrial training enabled by smart Wearable Technology (WT).Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:52:24 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126595Picture this! Europeana launches photo competitionhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126573
Europeana published a virtual exhibition of vintage postcards of south-eastern Europe this year. They invite people to share their pictures of the same places as they are today as part of the Picture This! competition. To participate, send in your pictures before 31 August 2017 with #PicThisEurope.Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:13:06 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126573Ex-ante advertisement for call for tender up to 50.000 €: Production of promotional videos about the Internet of Things (IoT)https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126511
The European Commission will launch soon a call for tenders for a service contract of a maximum value of EUR 50.000 (fifty thousand). This publication is made pursuant to Article 124.1 of the Rules of Application of the Financial Regulation that provides for an ex-ante publication on the Institutions' websites of contracts with a value up to 135.000 EUR.Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:59:50 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126511Wearable technologists Engage with Artists for Responsible Innovationhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126460
WEAR Sustain is a 2 year, €3m project, funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 research and innovation initiative to engage art, design and creative industries to work more closely with technology and engineering industries.Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:48:44 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126460EU funded GLAM organises an international workshop in Tel-Aviv about how KETs can enhance cancer diagnosishttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126449
This workshop organised by the GLAM project brings together experts from the field of nanotechnologies, photonics, and micro-and nano-systems in relation to cancer diagnosis. The speakers participating in the workshop will be researchers, experts in regulation and doctors.Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:15:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126449LUXCOR Health Event in Brusselshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126442
The LUXCOR health event gathered around 50 participants in Brussels on 19 June 2017. This first edition was co-organised by the Luxembourg Contact Office for Research & Innovation in Brussels (LUXCOR) and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). The topics addressed included Clinical and translational medicine, Big Data, eHealth and next-generation healthcare.Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:51:33 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126442Creative Europe MEDIA at the 74th Venice International Film Festivalhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126421
The next European Film Forum will take place during the 74th Venice International Film Festival where the European Commission will be co-organising two events, on 3 and 4 September 2017.Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:20:27 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126421New study shows that Europe is ready for free movement of Electronic Health Recordshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126330
The study, entitled "Mapping out the obstacles of free movement of electronic health records in the EU in the light of single digital market", shows that both patients and health professionals look forward to the development of eHealth services and the legislation that supports the movement and the safe use of health data.Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/1263302nd Survey of Schools: ICT in Educationhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126396
The European Commission launched the 2nd Survey of Schools: ICT in Education, which will assess the progress and estimate costs to connect primary and secondary classrooms in the EU.Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:32:50 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126396Roaming Tariffs | In your languagehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126380
Read about the evolution of roaming tariffs.Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:56:14 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126380EU funded INHERIT project identifies ways of living, moving and consuming that protect the environment and promote health and health equityhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126327
INHERIT (INter-sectoral Health and Environment Research for InnovaTion) aims at stimulating effective policies, practices and innovations that address key environmental stressors of health and the underlying causes of health inequity.Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:51:52 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126327The EU-funded Dreamspace project goes to Los Angeles!https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126326
SIGGRAPH 2017 has unveiled the winners of this year’s Computer Animation Festival, which is running throughout the SIGGRAPH event this year from July 30 to August 3, in Los Angeles.Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:42:57 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/126326